Finding a "healthy" medium.

K McMahon

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Finding a "healthy" medium.

K McMahon

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Home health care is an integral part of the health care system. As home care grows--a natural outcome with a growing elderly population and earlier discharges from the hospital under DRGs--so do the many challenges. Proposed Medicare budget cuts, managed care and Medicaid block grants are just a few of the pressing issues faces by not only home care, but the entire health care industry.

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K McMahon. 1995. Finding a "healthy" medium.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10151697/

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